The Secure Technology Alliance White Paper Contactless Payments: Proposed Implementation Recommendations is an interesting read, not only for what it says but for finding out what’s on the collective mind of […]
Value Capture and the Ecosystem of Transit Platforms
AppleInsider Daniel Eran Dilger’s very long editorial Apple Services and the ecosystem of value capture has an interesting bit at the beginning: The term Value Capture applies to rail and transit operators […]
MIFARE and Taiwan Transit Coming with iOS 12 Apple Pay?
It’s interesting how different story threads weave together. Taiwan has been running a huge “come visit Taiwan” campaign in Japan the past year or so. Even Mastercard Japan has been […]
Apple Pay Predicted to Account for Half of Mobile Wallet Users by 2020
Must be a slow news day: market research blah coughed up by Juniper Research is mindlessly regurgitated by MacRumors and AppleInsider. Free advertising for Juniper Research, you go Juniper Research. To […]
Dead HCE-F, Global NFC ≠ Global FeliCa, and Other NFC Confusion
NFC is a confusing name. It’s an upside down umbrella that catches every single naming convention connected with it: Type A, Type F, EMV, FeliCa, MIFARE, etc. There are also […]
Suica Express Transit and China Express Transit Compared
Japanese tech journalist Satoru Nakayama posted his experience of riding the Shanghai subway with an Apple Pay Express Transit China card loaded on his iPhone. Using Apple Pay Express Transit […]